Sentences with phrase «at sorting the wheat from the chaff»

The probability of a randomly selected mutation in a randomly selected gene having precisely that effect is quite low, so just as with the stones in the field, a positive finding is more likely than not to be spurious — unless the experiment is unbelievably successful at sorting the wheat from the chaff.

Not exact matches

In her piece in Forbes announcing the news, Suw Charman - Anderson states that «Most reviewers don't want to deal with self - published authors directly because they don't really want to deal with any authors directly...» (emphasis mine)... and that «reviewers depend on publishers acting as winnowers, sorting out the wheat from the chaff, and at least attempting to make sure that they are sent books they are actually interested in.»

These handpicked high - yielders can get you started on the right foot... To help you sort the wheat from the chaff, we asked some of your fellow investors here at The Motley Fool to highlight a few high - yielders that are in it to win it.

The reputation system will hopefully be put to good use and sort out the wheat from the chaff, of which there is unfortunately a lot which can make the Indie Games section very poor at a glance.

Poorly - trained scientists might look at the field of climatology and fail to sort the wheat from the chaff, or worse still, convince themselves that they can do a better job than the climatologists.